Public Health Funerals

The Public Health (Control of Diseases) Act 1984 places a statutory duty on Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough Council for registering the death and arranging the funeral of any person who has died where there are no known relatives or friends able to make the necessary arrangements.

The Council, along with many other local authorities, has been experiencing a huge rise in Freedom of Information (FOI) Requests from companies offering to trace the next of kin of persons being buried under the Public Health Act 1984. In response to the volume of FOI requests on this matter, the Council has created this list page to make public all cases it refers to the Treasury Solicitor. In this way the Council has fulfilled its obligation under Section 22 of the FOI Act (future publication) and will from this point forward refuse all such requests and refer applicants to this page.

Public Health Funerals

Name

Date of Death

Referred to Treasury Solicitor

V I Slade

08.09.2009

Yes

D J Sweet

25.11.2009

No

J Tye

27.03.2009

No

A Thacker

17.03.2010

No

D G Thomas

15.11.2010

No

K Hughes

12.08.2010

Yes

T R Daw

13.08.2011

No

M Rigdon

26.04.2011

No

S Payne

10.10.2011

No

P Marsh

05.11.2011

No

M M Lloyd

11.10.2011

Yes

M Davies

16.11.2011

Yes

Al J Davies

14.04.2012

No

J O'Neil McCann

02.05.2012

No

P S Jenkins

23.05.2012

No

T W Davies

07.02.2013

No

P Davies

23.03.2013

Yes

A Williams

17.07.2013

No

D Jones

15.07.2013

No

K Eldrige

12.11.2013

No

T J Parry

22.12.2013

No

C Beach

25.06.2014

No

R Sheperd

29.09.2014

Yes

T Edwards

30.01.2015

No

J M Legatt

24.05.2015

No

B H Bevan

09.12.2015

No

B Evans

21.03.2016

No

W H Hudson

16.09.2016

No

E Winfield

30.10.2016

No

B D Pine

06.12.2016

No

B Richards

10.05.2017

No

A Johnson

22.05.2017

Yes

D Protheroe

19/06/2017

No

C Peach

19/09/2017

No

R V Rowsell

05.10.2017

Yes

R F Payne

23.11.2017

No

D J Edmunds

16.01.2018

No

R Thomas

11.04.2018

Yes

In accordance with the Freedom of Information Act 2000 names and addresses have been redacted or withheld under the following two exemptions:

Section 21 - Information accessible to applicant by other means

Although I can confirm that Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough Council (RCTCBC) holds some of the information requested, the Council does not accept that it holds the information in its own right, but on behalf of the Treasury Solicitors’ department. Some details of the estate of those persons who have died have been passed onto the Treasury Solicitors’ Department can be accessed via the Treasury Solicitors’ website or at the Bona Vacantia website.

Section 31(1)(a) - Law enforcement (prevention and detection of crime)

Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough Council will not disclose address details into the public domain where they relate to deceased’s empty properties as the property is likely to be unoccupied and might still contain the deceased’s personal papers and effects. The Council does not believe it to be in the public interest to disclose information relating to empty properties prior to a full and thorough securing of the assets of the estate as undertaken by Treasury Solicitors. Additionally, giving out the names of the deceased taken with other information easily available i.e. the electoral role, telephone directory entry, 192.com etc would make identifying properties fairly easy.